Andrea Mitchell Net Worth

Andrea Mitchell is a well-known American television journalist, TV anchor, reporter and commentator for NBC News. She has been with NBC News since 1978, and is the most familiar face. She has her own show named after her, called Andrea Mitchell Reports. She is based in Washington, D.C. She is the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent of NBC News. Her one-hour show is telecast on weekdays on MSNBC. Besides these she also appears and co-host several other shows too.

On the personal front, she has amassed popularity since 1997, when she married the former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who is an international celebrity. With such an illustrious long career and being on the TV almost every day of the week, the global viewers and her fans are curious to know her net worth in 2018.

Andrea Mitchell Early Life

Andrea Mitchell was born on October 30, 1946; in New Rochelle, New York. She is from a Jewish family and her mother was an administrator at the New York Institute of Technology; while her father was the CEO and partner of a furniture manufacturing company. Both her parents worked in Manhattan, New York. Her father was associated with the Beth El Synagogue in New Rochelle for 40 years as the President. Her brother later moved to British Columbia.

Mitchell studied at the New Rochelle High School and then did her Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1967. While she was at University of Pennsylvania, she also became the news director of student radio station.

After her graduation, she continued her stay in Philadelphia. She became a reporter to the KYW radio and became the city correspondent and also worked for Mitchell rose to prominence as the station’s City Hall correspondent, during the Mayor Frank Rizzo’s administration and also reported for sister broadcasting station KYW-TV.

Mitchell was earlier married to Gill Jackson, which did not last long and they divorced. On 6th April, 1997; she married the former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, after a long relationship.

Andrea Mitchell Career, Awards & Achievement

In 1976, Andrea moved to Washington D.C. and joined the CBS-affiliate WTOP, which is now called WUSA.

In 1978, after completing two years with CBS, she moved to NBC’s network news operation, and since then she has remained with NBC. She initially joined as the general correspondent. Then she became the NBC News energy correspondent. She reported extensively during the late-1970s energy crisis and the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. From 1981, she also covered the White House and in 1988 she was made the chief congressional correspondent till 1992 and then made the Chief White House Correspondent from 1993 to 1994.

In 1994 she was made the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News.

From 2008 onwards, Mitchell has been assigned to host a program titled Andrea Mitchell Reports, on NBC’s news and commentary channel MSNBC. It is aired on weekdays for one hour from 12 Noon.

During her career as a bold TV journalist, she has been involved in many controversies. One of them is about revealing the identity of a CIA agent Valerie Palme. However, she was not asked to testify or called to the Court.

In 2005, while interviewing the President of Sudan at Khartoum, she was forcibly evicted from the venue by security guards. This generated a lot of discussions and debates on Freedom of Press.

In 2008, in an MSNBC interview, Mitchell referred to the voters of the southwest Virginia region as rednecks. This did not go well with people and she was severely criticized forcing her to tender an unconditional apology on TV.

Awards & Achievement

There has been no significant awards won by Andrea Mitchell till yet; but he is definitely a strong contender for Pulitzer and other important awards in Journalism. Mitchell has also written and published her book which is an account of her role as a journalist. Titled, Talking Back to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels; it was published in 2005.

Mitchell is also a cancer survivor, as she revealed in 2011. Mitchell disclosed to the world that she had breast cancer which was detected early and successfully treated.

Net worth of Andrea Mitchell

Andrea as the top reporter and show host of NBC, earns a salary of more than a million dollar per year, including bonus and other incentives. She owns a luxury apartment and a few cars. The estimated Net Worth of Andrea Mitchell is about $7.5 million.

Andrea Mitchell is a much respected 71 year old TV News anchor of NBC who started her career way back in 1978 and has been working for more than four decades. Her husband Alan Greenspan is 92 years old and both of them have been going strong. The couple has demonstrated to the world that age is just a number. Andrea Mitchell is an inspiration for every generation and especially for working women.